From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Sancho Panza   wrote:   
   >On 5/19/2014 12:08 AM, Glen Labah wrote:   
   >> In article   
   >> <1150810053422162717.604051dpeltier-my-deja.com@news.aioe.org>,   
   >>    wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> "conklin"  wrote:   
   >>>> Is the geo car ever put on the end of these 100+car oil trains?  If not,   
   >>>> why   
   >>>> not?   
   >>>   
   >>> Because a.) the slack action at the end of a 100-car freight trains is not   
   >>> safe for occupied passenger cars, and b.) they want to test as many miles   
   >>> per shift as they can, so they want to operate on priority trains. As I   
   >>> said, the usual practice is to run them as stand-alone trains.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> There is also c.) If it is a track geometry car at the end of a 100+ car   
   >> oil train, it will discover any critical safety issues with the track   
   >> after the train has already derailed and exploded.   
   >>   
   >Wouldn't the geometry car also be able to detect incipient problems?   
      
   How could it possibly do that for the benefit of the train consist it's   
   part of?   
      
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